Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Before this day ends, a brief word about the remarkable, and largely unknown, Blessed James Duckett, about whom I knew nothing until a write for Catholic Insight mentioned his name just today, and I just had to mention him to readers. He was one of the panoply of ‘English martyrs’ of the Reformation, put to[…]
Dostoyevsky wrote, through the voice of Prince Myskin in his novel, The Idiot, that ‘beauty would save the world’. I have often wondered about that quotation, and whether it be true. A number of years ago, our Schola choir traveled to a parish 2 hours from where I live, to sing Schubert’s Mass in E[…]
We pray for the victims of the school shooting in Nashville – three students and three teachers gunned down at a Christian school. Requiescant in pace. The female perpetrator – apparently a trans-activist ‘transitioning’ from her God-given sex to ‘male’ – was gunned down by police. Deus miserere nobis. We know not the tragic depths[…]
For these latter days of Lent, I just began reading Father Romano Guardini’s Jesus Christus – his 1963 meditation on the life of the Saviour, and a recommended read – when I noticed tucked within its pages this bulletin from Saint John’s Cathedral in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It’s from the same year, preserved in pristine condition,[…]
A blessed solemnity of the Annunciation, to all our readers! This feast commemorates the conception of the Son of God in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, freely chosen by the young Hebrew maiden Mary, who was given a choice to make: Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum, May it be done to me according to[…]
Intelligence is a difficult thing to define, never mind measure. But we can gain some idea of what ‘intelligence’ implies – knowledge of fundamental principles; problem solving; analogical reasoning; a smattering of history, geography, numerology, maths, physics, chemistry, literature. But it’s not so much about knowing facts – although that factors in – but how[…]
The tumultuous life of Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer (1751 – 1820) proves what the devil once admitted to the Cure d’Ars, that if there but three priests like him, his kingdom would be destroyed. Clement was one such priest, totally dedicated to his mission and work for Christ’s own kingdom. Events precluded Johannes – his[…]
On March 12th, 1622, Pope Gregory canonized Philip Neri, along with Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Avila and Isidore the Farmer – or, as the Oratorian joke goes, ‘four Spaniards and a saint’. But in all saintly seriousness, these five signify an era of great holiness, offering a spiritual foundation for the modern world[…]
There’s much ado of late on ‘15 minute cities‘, (FMCs – like everything else now, they have their own acronym) a proposed redesigning of our metropolises, so that the basic amenities – groceries, shops, cafes, libraries, schools, parks, even, might we add, churches – will all be within walking, or biking, distance. Gone will be[…]
In 1950, Alan Turing – one of the inventors of the modern computer, and fresh from helping win the war by designing it to decipher Germany’s indecipherable ‘Enigma Code’ – posited a test that he dubbed the ‘imitation game’, but was later named after him: Could a machine mimic a human so accurately, that no[…]
